Re: My terminal is in a weird state - SOLVED

["Mark Wright" <mwright@pro-ns.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>
To: Mark Wright <mwright@pro-ns.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: My terminal is in a weird state


>Mark Wright wrote:
>> I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display.  It seems
>> that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127
>> characters.  I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'.  I've tried
'reset',
>> but that doesn't help.  All of my virtual terminals are hosed.  For now I
>> can telnet in, but eventually I'd like to be able to work at the machine
>> itself, and I'd like to avoid rebooting if I can.  The problem started
after
>> I droped out of X, after installing Blackbox 5.  Any ideas on how to fix
the
>> problem?
>
>Try logging in the host from the network and run "kbd_mode -a" as
>root. This should fix the case when the keyboard was not properly
>restored when switching to virtual terminal from the X server.


I figured out the problem - the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO had the answer -
type 'setfont' at the prompt.  Now I have to go read it and figure out what
I just did...

Mark.